Scorch00 wrote:Mtnbiker29er wrote:I remember seeing the EULA for P3D which basically said not to be used for enjoyment purposes. :/ Not to mention the price point. In regards to FSX there are still an amazing amount of aircraft and scenery available both payware and freeware. I still have plenty of aircraft to enjoy and master on the tried and true FSX platform for a while. Just saddens me most online players left with the herd to msfs. Guess they like Cortana and Microsoft affiliated AI tracking. Yikes.
I mean. P3D is twice the price of say FSX Steam edition. But it's also at this point almost 2 decades newer as well. It runs better, smoother, has way better graphics engines, and a handful of other immersive additions you can add. Price is the tradeoff. P3D's EULA for it's use was primarily the civilian arm/distribution of it's software for training purposes in the civilian market either in the Academic or Professional License. It's really just legal jargon. Instead of the Missions, they were replaced with "Scenarios" and things like that. It just allows LM to not have to deal with the headaches of "games" like MSFS with ESRB ratings, etc. An immediate contradiction to it's EULA would be if you used it for training purposes and enjoyed it, then you'd be in violation it's use entirely every time you used it an enjoyed it to train. It's actually as I said, just legal jargon. They are entirely focused on leaving it a training tool and definite it as that. Which is likely why it's continued to be structured the way it is. Which I prefer. The only real drawback to P3D over FSX is it being twice the price. But it's also a considerably better sim. A very worthy compromise between the very bottom and the top arguably. FSX is still relevant, I'd just prefer the stability and better features of P3D over FSX. Doing what I do with aerial firefighting, FSX is so restrictive in that regard, it's why our ops are in P3D and most of the development, as are the professional companies training the actual pilots.
Excellent summary.
P3D is a great simulator which took the best out of FSX and got rid of all the limitations that FSX had. The 64 bits alone are worth the transition. What a change it was !
The only "advantage" that FSX still has, is the ability to use FS9 sceneries and FS9 aircraft.
Ok, P3Dv3 (up to 3.3 or 3.4 perhaps....) could still use FS9 aircraft though (with self shadows and clickable cockpits), but that one was still 32 bits. P3Dv4 went 64 bits and suddenly FS9 got forbidden...
Concerning the price point, well, yes nowadays FSX-Steam is cheap, but how much was it back when it was the "main" thing ? I think it was also around 60 euros/dollars, right ? Just like the Academic licence of P3D.